US2394667A - Shower stall - Google Patents

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Feb. 12, 1946. G. A. bAlLEY sHpwER STALL Filed May 24, 1944 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 GARDNER ,4. BALL ATTORNE v.3

G. A. DAILEY Feb. 12, 1946.

S HOWER S TALL Filed May 24, 1944 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ll lililivOilrilil INLVENTO emu/van I. DAILEY A TTOR NE Y6 Patented Feb. 12, 1946 UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE flasssesv j 4 SHOWER STALL Gardner A. Dailey, San Francisco, Calif., assign-'1 .or to Rhee m Manufacturing Company, Rieh-' mond, Calif., a company of "California I Application May 24, 1944, Serial No. 537,049 4 Claims. 01. 4514 This invention relates to shower stalls and has for its object the provision of an improved stall, particularly adapted for use in combination with bathtubs, although not necessarily limited to such use. The shower stall of my invention comprises an arcuate fixed wall, and a revolving arcuate screen parallel to it and movable from an inoperative or open position overlying the fixed wall to a closed position extending beyond the wall and forming with it a cylindrical bathing enclosure.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention.

In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a combination bathtub and shower stall showing the revolving :creen of my invention in closed or extended posi- Figure 2 is a horizontal section taken along line 2-2 of Figure 1, showing the screen in open or inoperative position, the closed position being indicated by broken lines;

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section taken along line 33 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a sectional detail of the lower edge of the screen;

Figure 5 is a sectional detail showing the track construction by means of which the screen is mo-vably mounted and Figure 6 is a perspective view of the shower stall end of the bathtub.

The bathtub shown in these drawings has arcuate ends a small and l and a large end 2, and tapering sides. The drain 3 is placed at the front near the small end and the controls 4 are mounted on a raised section of the tub rim close to the drain. Rising from the rim of the tub at the back and ends is a splash wall 5 which encloses the tub on three sides and extends upwardly for a distance above the height of a man. Tub and splash wall are preferablv made of unitary construction.

As shown best in Figures 2 and 6, the ri ht hand end 6 of the splash wall 5 extends around the rim of the large end of the tub for approximately 135 and consti utes the fixed wall of the shower stall. Mounted upon and parallel to this wall is an arcuate shower screen 1 which may be revolved from inoperative to bathing position by means which I shall now describe.

A fixed track 8 is anchored to and extends around the upper part of the arcuate end 6 of the splash wall 5, as shown in Figure 2 and in detail in Figure 5. Mounted upon and enveloping this fixed track 8 is a similarly curved sliding track 9 provided with supporting rollers Ill, the fixed and sliding tracks constituting a curved telescoping member which may be collapsed or extended. The shower curtain or screen 1, which may be made of glass, Celluloid, plywood or other suitable ma-- terial, is supported by and depends from the sliding track 9. This screen forms a section of a cylinder which parallels the cylindrical end 6 of the splash wall 5 and extends vertically from the sliding track to a point just below the rim of the tub, a shown most clearly in Figure 4. It is provided with frame members I I, preferably made of plastic. The lower frame member is provided on its outer side with a series of rubber rollers l2 which lie against the inner face of the tub and act as guides and facilitate the movement of the screen into and out of operative position.

In open or inoperative position the screen I is substantially coextensive with the curved end 6' of the splash wall, extending only slightly beyond the forward edge of that wall, as shown best in Figures 2 and 4. When a shower is to be taken, the bather, seizing the forward edge of the screen, swings it clockwise into the broken line position shown in Figures 2 and 6. The screen and the curved end of the splash wall now constitute, in efiect, a single cylindrical wall of a shower stall. The screen and splash wall overlap and the projecting end of the sliding track 9 constitutes a cantilever supported by that part which embraces the fixed track 8. The shower nozzle l3 enters the stall from above and points toward the flat back section of the splash wall. Thus all spray or splash is returned to the tub and does not wet the bathroom fioor. When the bath is finished, the screen is swung back into its open position against the arcuate end of the splash wall and no part of the track project beyond the forward edge of the screen. Suitable stops (not shown) are provided limiting the are through which the screen may be revolved and preventing the sliding track from becoming disengaged from the fixed track.

The advantages of my improved stall are obvious. When not in use the arcuate screen is rolled back along the curved end wall 6 where it is out of the way and inconspicuous. When needed it is easily revolved about its axis to enclose the bather and protect the bathroom floor from the spray.

Iclaim:

1. .A shower stall comprising a. fixed arcuate wall, a pair of arcuate telescoping track members around the upper part of the wall, one fixed to the wall and the other slidable relative to the first. and an arcuate screen supported by and depending from the movable track member and revolvable from an open position overlying the fixed wall to rollers along the lower edge of the screen. 7 3. A combination bathtub and shower stall,

comprising a tub having an arcuate end, mar:

euate splash wall extending upwardly from the arcuate end but circumferentiaily shorter than j the circular extent "of the tub end, an-arcuate 2,894,667 i g f it and forming with the splash wall an arcuate enclosure of more than 180, the lower end of the screen extending into the tub, and guide rollers on the lower edge of the screen and riding on the inner face of the tub.

4. A shower stall comprising a. fixed arcuate wall, a pair of arcuate telescoping track'members around the upper part of the wall, one, fixed to the wall and extending for less than 180 and the.

other slidable relative to the first, and an arcuate screen supported by and depending from the movable track member and revolvable from an open position overlying the fixed wall to a closed position extending beyond the fixed wall and forming with itjan 'arcuate enclosure of more than 180,

1 the projecting section of the movable track contrack of less than 180 mounted around the upper V part of the splash wall, a movable arcuate screen supported by and depending from the track and splash wall to a vclosed position extending beyond still in telescopic revolvable from an open position overlying the 20 stituting a cantilever supported by that section engagement with the fixed track. 1

GARDNER A. DAILEY.

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